Till the boughs are an empty crate.

He was trying to look inside the empty crate.

On day one a chartered surveyor in his sixties quit, saying that the work, moving empty crates on to a trailer, was too physically demanding.

The workmen are still fitting partitions for offices and empty crates litter the premises of the latest inspectorate set up to monitor a part of the country's public services.

The pump—zip-tied with the coil in a plastic milk crate—contains fresh and saltwater chambers separated by a membrane.

I love how it's in a milk bottle with a straw and served in a milk crate.

He learnt by watching the drummers in the local clubs, standing on a milk crate looking through a hole in the wall.

We later found the ball in an empty milk crate in a school playground.

He became an apprentice to the proprietor, at first standing on a milk crate to cut.

Prosper pivots and shakes the fish into a plastic crate in the middle of the boat, where it lashes wildly.

Her body had been put into a large plastic crate.

Wrap pool noodles around a plastic crate full of ice and your favourite beverages to create a floating bar.

The club could then replace the stumps with the plastic crate that the bread rolls came in.

The robbers plundered underground vaults - loading dozens of plastic crates bulging with cash on to the lorry.

Going home from its first public exhibition, the glass broke in its shipping crate and received a large crack in the glass.

These tortoises are large enough to handle subprime conditions during shipping but small enough to fit many in a fixed-size shipping crate.

He left many of them half unpacked in their shipping crates.

In the vast, hangar-sized building, 190 workstations hastily built using scaffolding have taken the place of cranes and shipping crates.

The machines had been packed in their cardboard shipping crates along with keys, papers and sufficient fuel to get them off the beach, though not without a struggle.

Reassuringly daft, it's essentially a padded wooden crate on runners.

A large wooden crate turns out to contain a dollhouse-scaled bedroom into which a giant moon has crashed, tugging the entire night sky with it.

A secret door in a wall reveals an industrial-sized lift, used to move paintings and sculptures between floors, and a huge wooden crate sits in the middle of one room.

He was given a suspended six-month prison sentence after getting into a fight with a motorist whom he hit on the head with a wooden crate.

All were crowded round a large wooden crate where, plainly, something big was happening.